TN woman dupes people in B'luru of lakhs of rupees; uses RBI, Finance Minister's names to gain faith
Bengaluru: In a duping incident reported from Anekal taluk, people lost lakhs of rupees to a woman who used the names of Finance Minister of India Nirmala Sitharaman and the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) while offering them high amounts of subsidy along with the money she lent them.
The fraudster, identified as Pavithra, a native of Hosur in Tamil Nadu, had opened an agency named 'Blue Wings' and claimed that the RBI had granted her agency up to Rs 17 crore, to gain the trust of the people she called. She later started presenting fake documents with the signature of the Finance Minister as proof in favour of the agency. Next, she started sending the people video clips of the bundles of the money 'Blue Wings' was working with.
Gaining the confidence of the people she called with such tricks, Pavithra then started assuring them that she would lend them money without much fuss or lengthy procedures. She offered Rs 5 lakh as subsidy for every Rs 10-lakh loan she gave, but added that the clients would have to deposit money with the agency before getting the loan amount.
The clients, believing Pavithra's words to be true, deposited very high amounts of their money with the 'Blue Wings' agency. When they got no loan from the other party even after waiting for a couple of months, they realized that they had been duped by Pavithra. People from various areas, like Chandapura, Attibele, Hosur and Dharmapuri, reportedly lost a lot of their money in the incident.
A case was registered against Pavithra and her accomplices by the Attibele Police based on a complaint filed by Rathnamma, a resident of Mayasandra. The officers said that case has also been booked against Praveen, Yallappa, Sheela, Rukmini, Radha, Mamatha, Nehruji, Sharat Kumar, Satish, Manjula, Martin, Hemalatha, Shalini and the other people involved in the duping act, and that investigation is underway.
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Pakistan reports two more polio cases; Total tally now 52
ISLAMABAD: At least two more cases of poliovirus were reported in Pakistan, taking the number of infections to 52 so far this year, a report said on Friday.
“The Regional Reference Laboratory for Polio Eradication at the National Institute of Health has confirmed the detection of two more wild poliovirus type 1 (WPV1) cases in Pakistan," an official statement said.
The fresh infections — a boy and a girl — were reported from the Dera Ismail Khan district of Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province.
“Genetic sequencing of the samples collected from the children is underway," the statement read. Dera Ismail Khan, one of the seven polio-endemic districts of southern Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province, has reported five polio cases so far this year.
Of the 52 cases in the country this year, 24 are from Balochistan, 13 from Sindh, 13 from Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, and one each from Punjab and Islamabad.
There is no cure for polio. Only multiple doses of the oral polio vaccine and completion of the routine vaccination schedule for all children under the age of five can keep them protected.
